MSC Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) USNS CHOCTAW COUNTY is the first ship of its kind to join the Navy’s Fifth Fleet. The Fifth Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean. The CHOCTAW COUNTY will be lay-berthed in the Mina Salman port […]

Leaders of the six unions that constitute the Maritime Labor Alliance met to review the state of maritime labor in the United States and to establish priorities for the upcoming year. Topics of discussion included the need to protect the hard-fought successes of the most recent longshore contract campaigns on the East, Gulf and West […]

The House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to support a measure authorizing increased funding for the Maritime Security Program (MSP). The provision, included in legislation to allow crude oil exports, would raise the amount that could be paid to each MSP vessel to $5 million per ship beginning in Fiscal Year 2017. During debate […]

Legislation that would strengthen America’s security and increase employment by allowing crude oil exports would also provide a significant boost for the Maritime Security Program (MSP). Included in the oil export legislation (HR 702) is a provision that would authorize the additional funding needed to stabilize the MSP and preserve its maritime security fleet of […]

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